Mayor and new daddy Gavin Newsomwill unveil a plan to provide every San Francisco kindergartener with a $50 "savings bond" for college - just as soon as he can figure out how to make sure illegal immigrants can qualify.

The idea behind the Kindergarten to College program would be for San Francisco to seed an account for each of the 4,500 children who enter kindergarten in the city's public schools each year. The students and their families would take it from there.

The money could be used only for college and would come out of the general fund.

Like the city's health care program, the bonds would be open to all students regardless of their immigration status or the status of their parents. And therein lies the rub: How to provide money for children whose parents may be reluctant to put their names on a bank account.

"What happens if a parent fails to sign them? Those are the type of issues we are looking at," said David Augustine, policy and program manager for the city treasurer's office, which would oversee the program.

A pilot program is expected to rev up in 2010, with sign-ups beginning next spring - just in time for the governor's race.

And will Newsom take the program statewide if he wins?

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," said mayoral spokesman Nathan Ballard. "Right now we want to get it up and running in San Francisco."

Ticket terror: They couldn't pull the trigger on a rollback, but Oakland City Council members definitely got the message the other night - the new parking rules have got to go.

"People are madder than ever, and I don't blame them," council President JaneBrunner said, after she and her colleagues failed to come up with the votes to move back meter enforcement to 6 p.m.

The council will take up the matter again Oct. 6 but already a sea change appears to be under way.

For one, Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente, who was absent from Tuesday's contentious meeting, will be back. De La Fuente tells us he will vote for the rollback, which would supply the fifth vote the council needs to pass it.

By then, the council will probably also have a better idea of how to make up for the $1.3 million it expected to make off the longer meter hours, which might pick up even more votes.

Even Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who voted against the rollback Tuesday, has changed her tune. She says that maybe the city should restore the old, lower parking fines in addition to shortening meter hours, "as a goodwill gesture."

Candid about cameras: New San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón wants to take a new look at the city's crime camera program - and maybe put some teeth in it.

In recent years, San Francisco police have put up 71 closed-circuit cameras throughout the city. But thanks to Big Brother-type fears, nobody actually monitors them.

For Gascón, that makes about as much sense as having a hammer in your tool box but never picking it up.

"We used cameras in L.A. to clean up a 30-year drug problem in MacArthur Park," said Gascón, a former assistant chief in Los Angeles. "But for them to work, you have to have someone monitoring them in real time, respond immediately when there is a crime and then use the video for slam-dunk prosecutions.

"If you're not going to monitor them, then they are just a waste of time and money," Gascón said.

Yeah, but they sure feel good.

Team spirit:Joe Montanacalled to congratulate San Francisco's first couple on their excellent name selection for their newborn daughter. The Niners' ruling family sent Gavin Newsom a pair of 49er booties and bib for little Montana.

But despite some warming since the exit of Jed York's dad, John York, from the 49ers' picture, relations between Newsom and the team remain pretty much at an impasse.

The source of the impasse, of course, is the Niners' desire to head down to Santa Clara - something to which the Yorks seem more committed than ever.